Example sentences of "[verb] them [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy was aware that many of her sayings were threadbare , she had heard them many times before , but as the comedian said , it was n't what as said , it was the way it was told . |
| 2 | He stabbed them many times after they were dead . |
| 3 | Hick , a member of their 1983 World Cup squad when only 17 , will be opposing them this time . |
| 4 | ‘ Did you have a — ? ’ good trip , Leith might have said , but as if thinking he 'd given them enough time to sort themselves out , Naylor was butting in , and positively flabbergasting her by what he chose to interrupt with ! |
| 5 | Why should we trust them this time ? |
| 6 | ‘ I told them several times I had met him only briefly . |
| 7 | RANGERS are to spend £500,000 on a new pitch in time for next season — assuming an abbreviated summer break allows them enough time to restore the worst playing surface Walter Smith can remember in his time at Ibrox , writes Hugh Keevins . |
| 8 | As for the others , there 's a hard core who attend virtually all the Circle 's functions ; I 've seen them many times over the years . |
| 9 | He had braved the bitter weather to go down to the bookshops on the Charing Cross Road not just for the chance to get some books — he could have bought them any time — but principally to meet Joseph Hyde and hear the latest news from Dublin . |
| 10 | And now you have Prozac , why should we believe them this time ? |
| 11 | She intones , in ominous transatlantic baritone : ‘ We licked them this time , but they 'll be back again . |
| 12 | Give them enough time and they 'd catch up with Blackbeard , if Blackbeard really was the killer . |
| 13 | Having coined and rehearsed the right phrases he never saw any reason why he should not use them several times , so he concluded , ‘ We do n't , I take it , want the police putting their big feet in it all over the place . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've told them many times that she no longer lives here , ’ said Mr Taylor , of Newstead Road . |
| 15 | " Your aunt became interested in selling them some time before she died . |
| 16 | When they took them away they said we could come and reclaim them any time we wanted , if we brought ten rupees . |
| 17 | It is therefore not unusual for junior nurses to feel that it takes them some time to " settle in " on a surgical ward . |
| 18 | What reinvigorated them this time was the passing reference in Tuesday 's column to former Sunderland ( and Darlington ) manager Billy Elliott ‘ the old flying winger , ’ recalls Ron . |
| 19 | But with any luck it will take them some time to realise that we know how to play it better than they do . ’ |
| 20 | It might take them some time to find out about Laura , because the interesting part of the story took place some years earlier . |
| 21 | ‘ In real life it would take them some time to get this boat ready to go to sea . |
| 22 | They 'd have to walk the road in both directions , and it would take them some time . |
| 23 | Oh they just There would always be somebody would be on the road at any time looking for harvest time and my father would say to someone , tell the McGregors We called them that time , so the McGregors came up went tell told the others . |
| 24 | She says they had the house raised off it 's foundations a while ago … maybe that 's protected them this time . |
| 25 | His face was moving a little , twitching by one eye , but he saw them this time . |
| 26 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 27 | This group has long been noted for its breadth of vision but nevertheless it took them some time to realise the unique advantages of the photosynthetic ‘ mechanisms ’ in plants and thereby to derive what may be an original approach to the problem . |
| 28 | Well what 's gon na come in to save them this time ? |
| 29 | For earlier , the grandma , who had left them some time ago , had pulled out a drawer from a deal tallboy , and put a noxious blanket in it , ready for the baby 's birth . |
| 30 | It had left them some time to take stock of their lives . |